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Trump 2.0: Making America Progressive Again
The question of who President Donald Trump resembled in history is one that has become almost a cliche, mostly thanks to its ideological Rorschach quality, especially during his first term and in the…
Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Diplomacy on the Eastern Border (w/ Kristaps Andrejsons, Jack Johannson, & Zack Twamley)
I was recently invited to join in a panel discussion with three podcasting greats and people I consider friends—that is, The Eastern Border’s Kristaps Andrejsons, the Secret Police podcast’s Jack Joh…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Slave Who Would Be a Spy (w/ Isaac Willour)
Slavery is often known as the United States’ original sin, and for good reason. Much of our perceptions of it are informed both by the Civil War’s cause and outcome, and the contradictions—and even m…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Spirit of the American West (w/ David McGarry)
The American West (or the “Wild West” as it’s still sometimes known) is arguably one of the defining features of the United States’ history and culture, if not the most defining feature. After all, m…
Published on 2 months ago
A Bug in the Software
Hey everyone, happy to present to all of you fine people with a brief bonus, this time adapting my recent historiographical essay that I had written my first semester in graduate school on the study …
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Mother's Wrath, Mankind's Bargain (The Los Angeles Fires of 2025)
In this episode of History Impossible inaugurating 2025 and the sixth anniversary of the show, we will be looking at the Los Angeles Fires of 2025 but from an extended, historical, and probably overl…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
A Revulsion of Feeling: The Arab Revolt and Collective Identity
This is the first installment of something that doesn’t really have a name; the Grad School Files? That sounds a little like a bad Netflix show. I’ll take suggestions, but in the meantime, we can sim…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
The Question of Genocide
This episode of History Impossible is an adaptation of the historical polemic I wrote on the one-year anniversary of October 7th, 2023, examining the interpretation of genocide, as applied to the cur…
Published on 5 months ago
The Original Donald Trump (Throwback Thursday!)
Hello all, hope you are doing well.
For a long time, I was skeptical of doing “re-runs” of History Impossible’s earlier episodes. I didn’t think that I had the “right” to do so, or something along tho…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Revisionism and Misplaced Empathy: The Darryl Cooper - Tucker Carlson Situation
I have, for many years, recommended Darryl Cooper’s hit podcast Martyr Made to the relative handful of people kind enough to listen to my own show and read my thoughts on various publications, includ…
Published on 7 months ago